“Les petits renards qui détruisent la Vigne du Seigneur Sabaoth”. Innocent III et le Cantique des cantiques

This article examines medieval interpretations of the Song of Songs and their appearance in the correspondence of one of the greatest popes of the High Middle Ages: Innocent III (1198-1216). Innocent III’s depiction of heretics in the south of France as ‘the little foxes which destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts’ was not unprecedented: decades earlier Saint Bernard of Clairvaux had also likened the ‘little foxes’ to heretics in his sermons. Bernard’s renown both as mystical theologian and tireless political advocate of the papacy meant that Innocent is likely to have drawn on such sermons for inspiration when composing his correspondence to the Christian faithful. Innocent’s references to the Song of Songs also provide conclusive evidence that a significant number of his letters have a highly personal flavour and that we really can discern a pope’s own ‘voice’ through his correspondence.

O despojamento em São Bernardo de Claraval e São Francisco de Assis (séculos XII e XIII)

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Choix d'ouvrages mystiques : avec notices littéraires /

Contiene: Confessions; Méditations/ Saint Augustin. Consolations de la philosophie/ Boéce. Traité de la consideration/ Saint Bernard. Imitation de Jésus-Christ/ Gersen. Principes de la vie Chrétienne; Chemin du ciel/ Cardinal Bona. Institutions/ Tauler. Le directeur des ames religieuses/ Louis de Blois.

Miroir du clergé.

Title pages of both volumes bear epigraphs by Saint Bernard and decorative vignettes. Vignette on t.p. of vol. 2 shows the Sacred Heart of Jesus on an opened book.

Illustrations of the passes of the Alps, by which Italy communicates with France, Switzerland, and Germany.

Each section preceded by engr. title, with vignette.

Du duché de Savoie, ou, Etat de ce pays en 1833.

"Accompagné de l'origne du peuple savoisien, de celle des ses souverains, et de l'histoire des Êtats-généraux de Savoie; suivi de considérations sur la position militaire de ce duché, sur la nécessité de porter les frontières de la France au Mont-Cénis et au Petit-Saint-Bernard, les seules limites naturelles entre cette puissance et l'Italie."